Are you sure it was salt? Cocaine sounds more like it. He was 1. Either trying to kick a cocaine habit, and was still going through the motions with something

Are you sure it was salt? Cocaine sounds more like it. He was 1. Either trying to kick a cocaine habit, and was still going through the motions with something that looked like cocaine 2. He was going to offer the coke to OP and see if he was a culture fit.